Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-18
RUNS, OUTS AND ERRORS.
The Result of Various Games Piayeu IN
Sacramento and Elsewhere Yesterday.

The Result of Various Games Piayeu IN
! Sacramento and Elsewhere Yesterday.
The Pioneers came up from the Bay
yesterday with a strong nine to play the
Atlas, including il their number the
champion left-fielder, Live Taylor, who
has left Andy Piercy's management to I'LL
the vacancy occasioned by the retirement
of Hen. Moore, who has gone to join the
A. & G's OF Stockton. A glance at the
score will show how effectively they played.
The home club was not in good hx to
meet them, Manager Piercys lnluncton
papers preventing Billy Mclaughlin from
taking part in the game, and fnnt, VINO
can cover more ground as nelder, and
throw the ball from the outfeld home bet
ter than almost any man on the coast,
having permanently quit the diamond.
These vacancies caused grand change In
the positions, and again brought INTO play
Mckenzie, who has done good WORK mere
tofore, but yesterday was out OF form.
LovETr, THE NEW PITCHER,
Occupied the box during the game, and
gave the Atlas and their friends reason to
believe that he is an excellent find" He
cannot, of course, be considered IN good
condition yet, and probably will not be for
two or three games more but he curved the
ball admirably, and only lost control OF 1t
when putting on speed. His work shows
that he considers level head equal to
muscle, and it will be surprising II he does
not show up well before the season IS over.
Billy Newbert acted as catcher, and made
some surprisingly fine stops, besides gen.
orally receiving in mastery manner, con-
sidering that he had never practlceo with
the pitcher. Gagus occupied the box Tor
the Pioneers, and his speed proved more
troublesome to the batters than his curves.
Plucky little Carroll was the other half of
the pony team" and little the better
half, though both worked hard. CAROLS
good temper will always make him IA
vorite, however, while Gagus' kicking !"
propensities act the other way. He was
fortunate in yesterday s gamein not having
S. plaster put over his mouth for calling
out to the umpire from the box, because
decision was not given his way, that he
might be " a nice umpire before glass"
NOTICEABLE THINGs
About Yesterdays game was that the Pr
oneers scored most OF their runs without
making base hits, of which they only Sc
cured two, and they were scratches, dur
ing the game, while the Atlas made four,
three of which were good far-reaehers. In
the first inning the Pioneers scored run
because of their first two men being given
bases on balls. In the fifth inning they
made four runs without a hit, being aided
by accident, in that the ball on one occa-
sion hit the runner to third and left him
safe, and Meagher made two bad fun
bles.h In fact, that usually excellent player
was badly off " throughout the game. In
the fifth inning Tom Ahern, first base of
the A tag while catching a ball thrown by
second baseman, had the nail Of the fore
finger of his right hand split and joint
dislocated, which put stop to further
playing on his part. and Ira Woodwork,
the sprightly little first baseman of the
Brightons, took his place and played fine
game. The game was played promptly,
and there was so much brilliant work done
that all went away pleased, the friends
of the Atlas being we'll satisfied
that, under the circumstances, they were
not beaten worse. This result may have
been attributable to the fact that they had
their new mascot" monkey of mis-
chievous disposition, present.